Datacolor User to User Support Group.

On Apr 8, 2011, at 6:07 PM, "Keith" <kjrslr@...> wrote:

> Recently put together a new computer running win 7 64 bit. I've been in the process of re-installing(and upgrading PS & LR) and just finished recalibrating my monitor. Soon I'll be installing my PrintFixPro(last software was Spyder3Print 4.x for 32 bit)and reprofiling the printer. I didn't move profiles from the old computer, but I did save product keys/licenses, etc. to an external drive so I have access to them. I have 2 questions. First, is there anything I need to do to install the latest software? I've downloaded it but haven't installed it yet. and the 2nd has to do with printing out new calibration targets(patches). When ever I print out targets, I save them in a folder and put them in a darkened file area in a different room. Rather than reprint them could they be reused(reread) and a new profile made from them or do I need to reprint them? The printer didn't change but the OS, PS, and LR did. 
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> You should be able to install with your previous numbers, but download the latest installers. Targets; no guarantee the new OS and drivers will print the same, so start over, as a precaution. 
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> C. D. Tobie
> Global Product Technology Mngr.
> Imaging Color Management
> Datacolor.com
> CDTobie@...
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> On Apr 8, 2011, at 6:07 PM, "Keith" <kjrslr@...> wrote:
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> > Recently put together a new computer running win 7 64 bit. I've been in the process of re-installing(and upgrading PS & LR) and just finished recalibrating my monitor. Soon I'll be installing my PrintFixPro(last software was Spyder3Print 4.x for 32 bit)and reprofiling the printer. I didn't move profiles from the old computer, but I did save product keys/licenses, etc. to an external drive so I have access to them. I have 2 questions. First, is there anything I need to do to install the latest software? I've downloaded it but haven't installed it yet. and the 2nd has to do with printing out new calibration targets(patches). When ever I print out targets, I save them in a folder and put them in a darkened file area in a different room. Rather than reprint them could they be reused(reread) and a new profile made from them or do I need to reprint them? The printer didn't change but the OS, PS, and LR did. 
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> You should be able to install with your previous numbers, but download the latest installers. Targets; no guarantee the new OS and drivers will print the same, so start over, as a precaution. 
> 
> C. D. Tobie
> Global Product Technology Mngr.
> Imaging Color Management
> Datacolor.com
> CDTobie@...
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> On Apr 8, 2011, at 6:07 PM, "Keith" <kjrslr@...> wrote:
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> > Recently put together a new computer running win 7 64 bit. I've been in the process of re-installing(and upgrading PS & LR) and just finished recalibrating my monitor. Soon I'll be installing my PrintFixPro(last software was Spyder3Print 4.x for 32 bit)and reprofiling the printer. I didn't move profiles from the old computer, but I did save product keys/licenses, etc. to an external drive so I have access to them. I have 2 questions. First, is there anything I need to do to install the latest software? I've downloaded it but haven't installed it yet. and the 2nd has to do with printing out new calibration targets(patches). When ever I print out targets, I save them in a folder and put them in a darkened file area in a different room. Rather than reprint them could they be reused(reread) and a new profile made from them or do I need to reprint them? The printer didn't change but the OS, PS, and LR did. 
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> On May 5, 2011, at 10:59 PM, Keith wrote:
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> > As per my original post about a new computer running win7-64, I downloaded the latest S3P driver(4.2.1) and following your recommendations I ran a new set of targets and set up a new profile. My concern is were this profile is stored. Upon completion the Spyder3Print screen came back to report that my new profile would be in C:\windows\SYSTEM32\spool\...... If I'm running 64 bit and the lastest driver is for 32\64 bit, shouldn't the profile be stored in something that doesn't indicate 32 bit? Or is it in the right place that PSCS5 & LR3 will find it?
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> They're fine, the location above is the "correct" Windows location for profiles
> on your system, whether you're running a 32 or 64-bit system.
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> Photoshop and Lightroom, and every other application that uses profiles, will
> find them there. (Yes, this is the right place)...:-)
> 
> David Miller
> Senior Software Developer, Digital Color Solutions
> Datacolor
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> On May 5, 2011, at 10:59 PM, Keith wrote:
> 
> > As per my original post about a new computer running win7-64, I downloaded the latest S3P driver(4.2.1) and following your recommendations I ran a new set of targets and set up a new profile. My concern is were this profile is stored. Upon completion the Spyder3Print screen came back to report that my new profile would be in C:\windows\SYSTEM32\spool\...... If I'm running 64 bit and the lastest driver is for 32\64 bit, shouldn't the profile be stored in something that doesn't indicate 32 bit? Or is it in the right place that PSCS5 & LR3 will find it?
> > 
> 
> They're fine, the location above is the "correct" Windows location for profiles
> on your system, whether you're running a 32 or 64-bit system.
> 
> Photoshop and Lightroom, and every other application that uses profiles, will
> find them there. (Yes, this is the right place)...:-)
> 
> David Miller
> Senior Software Developer, Digital Color Solutions
> Datacolor
>

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> Although I am not with Datacolor, I would suggest that what you encountered is a typical symptom of what happens when the print spooler in Windows is too small to handle the print job due to the existence of orphaned print job files, running out of disk space on the partition to expand into, or sometimes a badly fragmented hard drive.  It has nothing to do with S3P.
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> From: Keith 
> Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 12:16 PM
> To: datacolor_group@yahoogroups.com 
> Subject: [datacolor_group] Re: New computer!
> 
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> Thank you for the info! Now I have another question.
> After made this new profile and making a print(the 16 image example within S3P) & letting it dry, I felt it needed some adjustments and went back into S3P(the next day) to make & save the changes(thus creating a new profile) and went to print the example again. The printer(4800) had paper loaded, ink carts over half full(plenty of ink) and I ran a nozzle check to make sure everything was working prior to printing. I called up the example(thru S3P) and using the new profile I hit the print button. Everything was going well until the printer got to the last half of the last row(the little girl, marilyn monroe, & the 2 B&W images)and it just stoped printing. At first I thought something was amiss with the printer and checked the print cue. At that point I shut down the printer and pulled the paper out and turned off the printer. I started it back up and went into PS & pulled up an image, set up print preferences, picked the new profile(PS handles CM-off in print driver) and proceeded to print. Everything went fine. This is the only time I've had a print stop for no reason. Is this something in the S3P?
> Also, is there a way to print a different example test image through S3P? 
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> --- In mailto:datacolor_group%40yahoogroups.com, David Miller <dm2363@> wrote:
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> > On May 5, 2011, at 10:59 PM, Keith wrote:
> > 
> > > As per my original post about a new computer running win7-64, I downloaded the latest S3P driver(4.2.1) and following your recommendations I ran a new set of targets and set up a new profile. My concern is were this profile is stored. Upon completion the Spyder3Print screen came back to report that my new profile would be in C:\windows\SYSTEM32\spool\...... If I'm running 64 bit and the lastest driver is for 32\64 bit, shouldn't the profile be stored in something that doesn't indicate 32 bit? Or is it in the right place that PSCS5 & LR3 will find it?
> > > 
> > 
> > They're fine, the location above is the "correct" Windows location for profiles
> > on your system, whether you're running a 32 or 64-bit system.
> > 
> > Photoshop and Lightroom, and every other application that uses profiles, will
> > find them there. (Yes, this is the right place)...:-)
> > 
> > David Miller
> > Senior Software Developer, Digital Color Solutions
> > Datacolor
> >
>

>
> Although I am not with Datacolor, I would suggest that what you encountered is a typical symptom of what happens when the print spooler in Windows is too small to handle the print job due to the existence of orphaned print job files, running out of disk space on the partition to expand into, or sometimes a badly fragmented hard drive. It has nothing to do with S3P.
> 
> From: Keith 
> Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 12:16 PM
> To: mailto:datacolor_group%40yahoogroups.com 
> Subject: [datacolor_group] Re: New computer!
> 
> 
> Thank you for the info! Now I have another question.
> After made this new profile and making a print(the 16 image example within S3P) & letting it dry, I felt it needed some adjustments and went back into S3P(the next day) to make & save the changes(thus creating a new profile) and went to print the example again. The printer(4800) had paper loaded, ink carts over half full(plenty of ink) and I ran a nozzle check to make sure everything was working prior to printing. I called up the example(thru S3P) and using the new profile I hit the print button. Everything was going well until the printer got to the last half of the last row(the little girl, marilyn monroe, & the 2 B&W images)and it just stoped printing. At first I thought something was amiss with the printer and checked the print cue. At that point I shut down the printer and pulled the paper out and turned off the printer. I started it back up and went into PS & pulled up an image, set up print preferences, picked the new profile(PS handles CM-off in print driver) and proceeded to print. Everything went fine. This is the only time I've had a print stop for no reason. Is this something in the S3P?
> Also, is there a way to print a different example test image through S3P? 
> 
> --- In mailto:datacolor_group%40yahoogroups.com, David Miller <dm2363@> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > On May 5, 2011, at 10:59 PM, Keith wrote:
> > 
> > > As per my original post about a new computer running win7-64, I downloaded the latest S3P driver(4.2.1) and following your recommendations I ran a new set of targets and set up a new profile. My concern is were this profile is stored. Upon completion the Spyder3Print screen came back to report that my new profile would be in C:\windows\SYSTEM32\spool\...... If I'm running 64 bit and the lastest driver is for 32\64 bit, shouldn't the profile be stored in something that doesn't indicate 32 bit? Or is it in the right place that PSCS5 & LR3 will find it?
> > > 
> > 
> > They're fine, the location above is the "correct" Windows location for profiles
> > on your system, whether you're running a 32 or 64-bit system.
> > 
> > Photoshop and Lightroom, and every other application that uses profiles, will
> > find them there. (Yes, this is the right place)...:-)
> > 
> > David Miller
> > Senior Software Developer, Digital Color Solutions
> > Datacolor
> >
>

From: Cdtobie 
Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 7:46 PM
To: datacolor_group@yahoogroups.com 
Subject: Re: [datacolor_group] Re: New computer!

  

>>While I do not know that much about SSD drives, whether or not they can get fragmented, and  I have acknowledged that fragmentation is a sometimes cause, I do need to ask if the SSD drive is the only drive on the machine or the main drive on the machine which houses the operating system? It would also be helpful to know  (a) how large the image data file that is giving you problems is, (b) if it contains unflattened layers or not, (c) if your operating system’s pagefile is a dynamic or static pagefile, (d) what image editing program you are using , (e) if the image editing program has a scratch disk of its own, and (f) where that image editing applications scratch disk is located with respect to the hard drive partition and the operating system along with its pagefile.


If he's printing the SpyderProof test images from Spyder3Print SR, then the image size is quite modest, and the image is flattened, in jpg format. No image editing program involved if the test image is being printed directly from our app. 


C. David Tobie
Global Product Technology Manager
Imaging Color Solutions
Datacolor inc. 
cdtobie@...
www.datacolor.com

On May 7, 2011, at 8:18 PM, "Laurie Solomon" <ls1000@...> wrote:


  While I do not know that much about SSD drives, whether or not they can get fragmented, and  I have acknowledged that fragmentation is a sometimes cause, I do need to ask if the SSD drive is the only drive on the machine or the main drive on the machine which houses the operating system? It would also be helpful to know  (a) how large the image data file that is giving you problems is, (b) if it contains unflattened layers or not, (c) if your operating system’s pagefile is a dynamic or static pagefile, (d) what image editing program you are using , (e) if the image editing program has a scratch disk of its own, and (f) where that image editing applications scratch disk is located with respect to the hard drive partition and the operating system along with its pagefile.

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> >>Also, is there a way to print a different example test image through S3P?
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> There are a total of 21 test image possibilities in Spyder3Print SR: the 16 individual images, the four quadrants, and the whole matrix. Your choice. To print other images beyond that, move to Photoshop, or other graphics app. 
> 
> C. David Tobie
> Global Product Technology Manager
> Imaging Color Solutions
> Datacolor inc. 
> cdtobie@...
> www.datacolor.com
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> On May 7, 2011, at 1:16 PM, "Keith" <kjrslr@...> wrote:
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> > Also, is there a way to print a different example test image through S3P?
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